{"product_id":"9781564789693","title":"Hypothermia","description":"Shocking, erudite, and affecting, these twenty-odd short stories, \"micro-novels,\" and vignettes span a vast territory, from Mexico City to Washington, D.C. to the late nineteenth-century Adriatic to the blood-soaked foothills of California's gold-rush country, introducing an array of bewildering characters: a professor of Latin American literature who survives a tornado and, possibly, an orgy; an electrician confronting the hardest wiring job of his career; a hapless garbage man who dreams of life as a pirate; and a prodigiously talented Polish baritone waging musical war against his church.\u003ci\u003eHypothermia\u003c\/i\u003eexplores the perilous limits of love, language, and personality, the brutal gravity of cultural misunderstandings, and the coldly smirking will to self-destruction hiding within our irredeemably carnal lives.","brand":"Deep Vellum Publishing","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47149936181488,"sku":"9781564789693","price":14.5,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781564789693_p0.jpg?v=1763758174","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781564789693","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}